office of the secretary of state,' then the right of the state to subscribe therefor is to cease. p. 96.

A company was incorporated to construct a railroad from Paterson to Fort Lee, on the Hudson, in the county of Bergen. p. 121. Another company was incorporated, with a capital stock of 1,000,000 dollars, with liberty to increase the same to 2,000,000 dollars, to construct a railroad from a point on the Delaware river, between the New York state line and where the Paulings-kill empties into that river, to the Hudson river, opposite New York. p. 133.

Coal Company. The Phoenix Coal Company was incorporated, with a capital stock of 100,000 dollars; its object is to supply the public with coal. p. 184.

Dispensary. The Trustees of the Paterson Public Dispensary were incorporated, for the relief of the indigent sick and injured, and for the more effectual prevention of the small pox. p. 34.

Divorces. Nine acts of divorce were passed.

Fire Companies. Four Fire Companies were incorporated. Indictment. No indictment or information shall be abated by reason of any dilatory plea of misnomer of the party offering such plea; but if the court shall be satisfied of the truth of such plea, it shall cause the indictment or information to be amended according to the truth, and shall call upon such party to plead thereto, and shall proceed as if no such dilatory plea had been pleaded. p. 49.

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Indians. An act was passed for the extinguishment of the title of the Delaware tribe of Indians, formerly residents of New Jersey, but now residing at Green Bay, in Michigan, to any part of the territory of New Jersey or its franchises.' The preamble states, that whereas the legal right of those Indians to the fisheries in the rivers and bays of the state, south of the river Raritan, which they declare they have never alienated, is barred by reason of their voluntary abandonment of the use of them; 'but that the legislature should grant a remuneration for the right to said fisheries, as an act of voluntary justice, as a memorial of kindness and compassion to the remnant of a once powerful and friendly people, occupants and natives of this state, and as a consummation of a proud fact in the history of New Jersey, that every Indian claim, right and title to her soil and its franchises have ever been acquired by fair and voluntary transfer,'-therefore it is enacted, that the treasurer be authorized to pay 2000 dollars to the agent of the tribe, upon his filing in the office of the secretary of state a conveyance to the state of all the soil, fisheries, or

other rights or reservations which now are or ever were owned or possessed by the Delaware tribe of Indians in any portion of the territory of New Jersey.' p. 148.

Insurance Company. The Camden Insurance Company was incorporated, with a capital stock of $50,000, and the privilege of increasing it to $100,000. p. 189.

Manufacturing Companies. Two companies were incorporated, for the purpose of raising and cultivating silkworms, and of manufacturing silk, wool, cotton,' &c. The capital stock of each company is 25,000 dollars, but it may be increased from time to time to 200,000 dollars. They are to be established at or near Paterson and Cumberland Furnace. The Dundee Manufacturing Company was incorporated, with a capital of 150,000 dollars, for the manufacture of iron, cotton, wool, &c. The proprietors of the Morris Aqueduct were also authorized to carry on any milling and manufacturing business that they may deem expedient.'

Lyceums, &c. The Newark Mechanics' Association and Lyceum, and the Mechanics' Institute of Paterson, were incorporated; their objects are, the cultivation of literature, the arts and sciences, and the diffusion of useful knowledge.

Mining Company. The Mount Hope Mining Company was incorporated, with a capital stock of 60,000 dollars, to be employed in mining and transporting ore,' &c. p. 28.

Pensions. Pensions were granted to six individuals. A resolution was passed, requesting the senators and representatives of the state in congress to exert themselves to procure the passage of a law granting aid and relief to the surviving officers and soldiers of the New Jersey revolutionary militia.

Steamboat Company. A company was incorporated for the establishment of a steamboat ferry between Fort Lee, in the county of Bergen, and New York. The capital stock is 50,000 dollars, with the privilege of increasing to 100,000 dollars.

Guardians. If the personal estate and the rents and profits of the real estate of any minor are insufficient for the maintenance and education of such minor, upon the application of the guardian to the orphans' court of the county where the real estate may be situated, that court are authorized from time to time to order the guardian to sell so much of the timber on such real estate as may be required for the maintenance and education of the minor. p. 168.

Variance. Deeds made by sheriffs or other officers, of real estate sold by virtue of writs of execution, are to be valid, notwithstanding any variance between the recitals in the deeds and the

executions by virtue of which the sales were made, or between the executions and the judgments upon which the executions were issued. The court in which the record or exemplification of any judgment or execution may be offered in evidence in support of any deed made by a sheriff or other officer, of real estate sold by virtue of any writ of execution, is to consider the judgment or execution as amended in any particulars, in which the same might, by the rules of law and practice, have been at any time amended by the court in which the judgment was rendered, or out of which the execution was issued, and the judgment or execution is to have the same force as if it was amended accordingly. Any deed, made by an executor or administrator of real estate, sold in pursuance of an order of the orphans' court, by virtue of the acts to which this act is a supplement, is to be valid, notwithstanding any variance in the recital in the deed of the order of the orphans' court authorizing such sale, with the record of such order. p. 26. Taxes. An act was passed to raise the sum of 40,000 dollars for the year 1832.

OHIO.

At the first session of the thirteenth General Assembly of Ohio, at Columbus, on December 6, 1831, twenty public acts were passed. We have not been able to obtain the pamphlet containing the pri

vate acts.

Census. An act was passed making additional provision for taking the enumeration of the white male inhabitants of the State over the age of twenty-one years. p. 5.

Canal. An act authorizing the selection and sale of the lands granted by Congress to aid the State in extending the Miami canal, was passed. The governor is to cause the lands to be selected as early as practicable. The line of the canal, ' as now run and reported to the last General Assembly,' 'is located and agreed upon as the route of said canal,' and the persons authorized by the governor to make the selection, are to be governed by said line.' The lands are to be offered for sale, and as soon as the avails are sufficient to authorize the commencement of the work, the canal commissioners are required to put under contract such part of the canal, commencing at or near Dayton, 'as the money then in the treasury for that purpose will justify,' and from time to time, as the avails of said lands may be paid into the treasury, to expend the same in extending the canal. 14.

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Funds. The auditor of state is required, annually on the first

of January, to apportion equally amongst the several counties, the amount of the Three per Cent. Fund, then in the State treasury; the money so received by the counties is to be expended in opening or repairing state or county roads, and in the erection and repair of bridges. p. 16.

Inspection laws.

of fish. p. 20.

An act was passed, regulating the inspection

Lands. An act was passed, further regulating the perpetuation of testimony relative to lands. County surveyors, within their respective counties, are authorized to take the depositions of witnesses, for the establishment of surveyed or agreed corners of lands.' p. 12.

Nuisances. If any owner, &c. of a slaughter-house ' permit it to remain unclean between the first day of April and the first day of October of each year, to the annoyance of the citizens of this State, or any of them,' he shall forfeit for every offence, not less than $5 nor more than $50, together with costs of suit; and if the nuisance be not removed within five days thereafter, it shall be deemed a second offence,' and every like neglect of each succeeding five days thereafter shall be considered an additional offence.' Owners, &c. of soap, candle, oil, glue and varnish factories, &c. are not to allow them to remain unclean, to a greater extent than is necessary for the prosecution of their business, under penalty of forfeiting not less than $10 nor more than $40 for every such offence, and every neglect to remove the nuisance for five days is to be considered an additional offence. Persons are prohibited from putting dead animals in water courses, roads, fields, &c. or allowing them to remain in such places to the annoyance of the public. The penalties accruing under this act are to be paid into the town treasuries. p. 22.

Penitentiary. An act was passed providing for the erection of a new penitentiary, at or near Franklinton or Columbus, for the confinement of persons sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor in the penitentiary; it is to be of sufficient capacity to receive 500 convicts, who are to be confined in separate cells at night; the cost is not to exceed $60,000, exclusive of the labor of the convicts. The act also contains numerous provisions for the discipline and government of the new penitentiary. p. 24.

VIRGINIA.

At the session of the legislature of Virginia, begun on December 5, 1831, at Richmond, eighty-eight public acts, one hundred and sixty private acts, and four resolutions were passed.

Ch. 1.-Taxes. The tax imposed on land, for the year 1832, is eight cents for every hundred dollars value thereof;' on every slave above the age of twelve years, (except such as are exempt in consequence of age or infirmity) twenty-five cents; on every license to sell lottery tickets, $500; on every license to a hawker or pedler to sell dry goods or wares of foreign or domestic growth, $20, to be paid in each county &c. where he shall sell any of those articles; on every license to a pedler dealing in tin or pewter, in each county where he shall trade, 10 dollars; every clock pedler shall pay $75 in each county in which he shall trade; &c. &c.

Ch. 2.-Appropriations. In the act appropriating the public revenue, we notice the following items: for the expenses of the general assembly, $85,000; for the salaries of the officers of the civil government, $78,000; to the commissioners of the revenue, and clerks for examining the commissioners' books, $29,000; to defray' criminal charges,' $42,000; for contingent expenses of courts, $33,000; for the payment of pensions, $3,000; for a civil contingent fund, $ 12,000; for the militia establishment, $16,000; for the public guard in the city of Richmond, $15,650; for the transportation of criminals to the penitentiary, $6,000; 'for slaves executed and transported,' $30,000; for the support of two lunatic hospitals, $16,500.

Ch. 20.-Militia. This act was passed for the encouragement of volunteer companies. The governor is required to furnish, as soon as practicable, to the volunteer companies organized under the provisions of this act, such arms and accoutrements as may be at his disposal, upon such conditions as he may deem proper. These volunteer companies are required to attend the regimental and battalion musters, and also to have a regular drill every month. Persons serving seven successive years in one or more of these volunteer companies, are to be exempt from militia duty except in times of invasion, insurrection, or war. The membership in any one such volunteer company is to continue at least two years.

Ch. 21.-Patrols. This act regulates the duty and pay of patrols, prescribes the penalties to be inflicted for neglect in performing the duty, &c.

Ch. 22.-Slaves, free negroes, and mulattoes. By this act, all colored persons are prohibited from preaching, or from holding any assembly for religious or other purposes; they are forbidden to attend any assembly held, or pretended to be held, for religious purposes or other instruction, conducted' by any colored person; slaves are not allowed to attend 'any preaching in the night time,